McDougal history of health care

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early beginnings

  • 3900 BCE

    diseases caused

    Evil spirts
  • 3600 BCE

    Treatments

    Prayers, exorcisms
  • Medicines used today
    3100 BCE

    Medicines used today

    Morphine-pain
    Quinine-digestion
  • Period: 2999 BCE to 399

    Ancient times

  • Ancient Egyptian's
    2900 BCE

    Ancient Egyptian's

    Health records-first to keep track and see if they issues is related.
    Who are physicians-the priest are the physician's
    How did they heal- they used medicines and treated disorders by bloodletting with leaches.
  • Ancient chines
    1900 BCE

    Ancient chines

    Development of acupuncture- they were the first(still used today)
  • Ancient Greek
    900 BCE

    Ancient Greek

    Illness cause nature vs. spirits-the first study the cause of disease( not just a spirt)
    Dissection-no dissecting because of religion.
    Hippocrates- the father of medicine.
  • 100 BCE

    Ancient romans

    Sanitation system- they found diseases are sometimes caused by lack of sanitation. So now they use clean water in there city.
    Organize medical care-first to have and help with wounded soldiers and started the begging of hospitals.
    Hospital development- public building to care for the sick
  • Period: 400 to 800

    Dark age

    Stopped the study of medicine, why?- They stopped because of their religion “life and death are in Gods hands” there for the monks and the priest had no interest.

    How do they treat disease?-with prayers
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Middle age

  • 1100

    Epidemics

    -The Black Death, tuberculosis, syphilis, smallpox.
  • Period: 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • 1450

    Rebirth

    dissection, dissection and books
  • Period: 1501 to

    16th and 17th centuries

  • Leonardo da Vinci
    1515

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
  • Gabriele fallopius
    1550

    Gabriele fallopius

    Discovered the tube of the female anatomy
  • Bartolommeo eustachio
    1563

    Bartolommeo eustachio

    Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat (euatchain tube)
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    Used his knowledge to understand physiology (circulating of blood pumping to the heart )
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    -Invented the microscope
  • Apothecaries

    Prepared Medicines and then sold.
  • Period: to

    18th century

  • Benjamin franklin

    Discover bifocals and that colds could be passed through people.
  • Medical students learning

    Medical students learning

    Student attended lectures and observed patients. When patients would die they would dissect the body and observed the disease process.
  • Joseph priestly

    Discovered the element of oxygen
  • Edward Jenner

    Discovered a vaccination for smallpox
  • Rene Laennec

    Invented the stethoscope( still used today)
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    19th and 20 centuries

  • Ignare Semmelweis

    Identified the cause of childbed fever and making physicians clean their hands before delivering baby’s.
  • Florance nightingale

    -Nursed in the Crimean war and help with a disease called cholera.
  • Dimitri Ivanovski

    discoverer of viruses and that diseased plants could pass the disease/sickness to healthy plants.
  • Louis pasteur

    Discovered that there are tiny microorganisms were everywhere and proved they caused disease.
  • Joseph lister

    Learned pasteurs discovery that microorganism cause infection and was the first doctor antiseptic during surgery.
  • Ernst von Bergman

    Developed asepsis
  • Robert Koch

    Discovered disease-causing organism and developed the culture plate method (to find organisms that caused diseaseand separated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis)
  • Paul ehrlich

    Discovered medicine outcome on disease
  • Wilhelm roentgen

    Discovered x-rays and took the very first one.
  • Anesthesia

    Before the 19th century surgery was quite painful because they didn’t have anesthesia. The physicians used herbs, hashish and alcohol in replacement in till the discovery of anesthesia in the 19th-20 century.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    -Discovered penicillin (killed bacteria)
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Discovered sulfonamide compounds (1st medication actually worked in killing bacteria)
  • Jonas Salk

    Discovered that dead Polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • Albert Sabin

    -First to use a live polio virus vaccine
  • Francis crick and James Watson

    Both discovered the molecular structure of DNA
  • Ben Carson

    A pioneer (separates Siamese twins and performs brain surgery’s to stop seizures)
  • Period: to

    Emotional wellness

    No longer works on people physical health but on but emotional wellbeing.
  • Period: to

    People live longer and healthier

    More vaccine, inventions and procedures.
  • Period: to

    Electronic communication

    -Can ask question or concerns online
  • Period: to

    New inventions and procedures

    Including ability to transplant organs from a donor, ability to reattach severed body parts and advancement in caring for unborn fetus.
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    Home health care

    Nurses and technicians can visit patients at home or an ambulatory care setting.